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Awareness, approval and completion of advance directives in older adults in Switzerland [PDF]

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2018
BACKGROUND Advance directives enable people to describe their preferences for medical treatment (living will) and/or to appoint a healthcare proxy who may decide on their behalf should they lose decision-making capacity.
Sarah Vilpert, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Jürgen Maurer, Gian Domenico Borasio   +3 more
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A DIRECT ADVANCE ON ADVANCE DIRECTIVES [PDF]

Bioethics, 2010
ABSTRACTAdvance directives (ADs), which are also sometimes referred to as ‘living wills’, are statements made by a person that indicate what treatment she should not be given in the event that she is not competent to consent or refuse at the future moment in question.
Shaw, D.
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Advance directives in the emergency department

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020
Advance directives are documents to convey patients’ preferences in the event they are unable to communicate them. Patients commonly present to the emergency department near the end of life.
Eileen F. Baker, Catherine A. Marco
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How do our patients respond to the concept of psychiatric advance directives? An exploratory study from India

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2018
Background: Psychiatric advance directives have been incorporated in the Mental Health Care Act 2017 despite strong concerns about their feasibility and utility in the Indian patient population. Data on its utility in India is very scarce.
Bheemsain Tekkalaki, Veerappa Y Patil, Sandeep Patil, Sameeran S Chate, Ramling Dhabale, Nanasaheb M Patil   +5 more
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Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer’s disease by offering advance care planning—a prospective double-arm intervention study [PDF]

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background Everybody has the right to decide whether to receive specific medical treatment or not and to provide their free, prior and informed consent to do so.
Stefanie Baisch, Christina Abele, Anna Theile-Schürholz, Irene Schmidtmann, Frank Oswald, Tarik Karakaya, Tanja Müller, Janina Florack, Daniel Garmann, Jonas Karneboge, Gregor Lindl, Nathalie Pfeiffer, Aoife Poth, Bogdan Alin Caba, Martin Grond, Ingmar Hornke, David Prvulovic, Andreas Reif, Heiko Ullrich, Julia Haberstroh   +19 more
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Why have Advance Directives failed in Spain?

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background In Spain, there has been great effort by lawmakers to put Advance Directives (ADs) into practice since 2002. At the same time, the field of bioethics has been on the rise, a discipline that has spurred debate on the right of patients to ...
Benjamín Herreros, María Benito, Pablo Gella, Emanuele Valenti, Beatriz Sánchez, Tayra Velasco   +5 more
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Are advance directives helpful for good end of life decision making: a cross sectional survey of health professionals

BMC Medical Ethics, 2017
Background This paper joins the debate over changes in the role of health professionals when applying advance directives to manage the decision-making process at the end of life care.
Eimantas Peicius, Aurelija Blazeviciene, Raimondas Kaminskas   +2 more
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Advance directives and the impact of timing [PDF]

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2014
PRINCIPLES: Advance directives are seen as an important tool for documenting the wishes of patients who are no longer competent to make decisions in regards to their medical care.
Ina Otte, Corinna Jung, Bernice Elger, Klaus Bally   +3 more
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Advance directives from haematology departments: the patient’s freedom of choice and communication with families. A qualitative analysis of 35 written documents

BMC Palliative Care, 2018
Background In France, advance directives are favourably perceived by most of the population, although the drafting rate is low. This ambivalence is challenging because advance directives are meant to promote the autonomy and freedom of choice of patients.
S. Trarieux-Signol, D. Bordessoule, J. Ceccaldi, S. Malak, A. Polomeni, J. B. Fargeas, N. Signol, H. Pauliat, S. Moreau   +8 more
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Variables that influence the medical decision regarding Advance Directives and their impact on end-of-life care

Einstein (São Paulo), 2019
The objective of this study was to identify the variables that influence physicians to implement Advance Directives and assess their impact on end-of-life care.
Larissa Mont’Alverne de Arruda, Kelline Paiva Bringel Abreu, Laryssa Braga Cavalcante Santana, Manuela Vasconcelos de Castro Sales   +3 more
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